Data Management
October 1, 2009
Geospatial solutions provider RapidEye recently announced that it has been named a Prime Vendor Contract to the USDA and three other agencies. Under the contract, RapidEye will provide its levels 1B and 3A satellite imagery products.
The agencies include the...
Data Management
September 24, 2009
AGCO is now offering AGCOMMAND, a wireless data collection and communication system. AGCOMMAND will be released with the 2010 model year combines, which includes the Gleaner, Massey Ferguson and Challenger lineups. Other product applications, such as tractor and sprayer...
Data Management
September 9, 2009
More than four years in the making, CropSpec is a collaborative effort between Topcon and Yara, the century-old, Europe-based fertilizer manufacturer that currently leads the world in fertilizer sales. Topcon's Mike Gomes says that the collaboration has brought together...
Data Management
September 1, 2009
On-the-go crop sensor technology has been the subject of development and research for more than a decade, and for good reason. When attached to sprayers or tractor implements during field operations, the sensors have the ability to reveal crop...
Data Management
August 20, 2009
RapidEye, based in Germany, has been working with potential partners around the world to offer its five-satellite constellation dedicated to unique remote imagery products. The company provided the following success story, working with a French precision agriculture consulting company.
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Data Management
August 13, 2009
Alabama precision practitioners have a new resource for data and advice on ag technology products, practices, and research.
John Fulton, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the bioengineering department at Auburn is spearheading site development. The goal is to provide...
Data Management
May 28, 2009
RapidEye is the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate its own constellation of Earth observation satellites. The imaging campaigns were concentrated in Europe, the U.S., Brazil and China. Nearly 14 million square miles (or more than 36...
Data Management
May 7, 2009
A decade ago, Iowa-based AgWorks released a product call the Smart Gun. Essentially a ruggedized handheld computer, the Smart Gun was designed to help the custom applicator to track and record all the critical steps involved in doing an...
Data Management
April 16, 2009
RT Commander Version 1.3.8, which is a free update via website download for GreenSeeker owners, includes updated prescriptions for corn and wheat from Virginia Tech and Kansas State University. A new cotton nitrogen algorithm (formula) is included from the...
Data Management
April 9, 2009
For Tim Norris, it seems like a perfectly logical progression.
When we first visited Norris in the fall of 2003, he was heading up a precision consulting division of an Ohio cooperative, helping grower-clients of the company discover the benefits...
Data Management
April 2, 2009
From CropLife Magazine, April, 2009 When John Deere Agri Services chose to shutter its OptiGro remote imagery offering in the spring of 2008, it soon after sold the business to GeoVantage. This was the very same company that Deere...
Data Management
March 26, 2009
The new adapters extend the range of wind monitoring applications that are possible with Onset weather stations, while broadening the company's weather sensor product offerings.
"While we already offer a number of research-grade wind sensors, linking up with RM Young...
Data Management
March 12, 2009
With the economy stammering all around us and so much uncertainty clouding the future, the temptation for many when it comes to field management will be to edge toward "minimum requirements." Anticipating this reaction, the International Plant Nutrition Institute...
Data Management
February 26, 2009
The first of the new products is the GreenSeeker RT200-4 Variable Rate Application and Mapping System. This new four-sensor system retains all of the features and benefits of the flagship six-sensor GreenSeeker RT200 system, but is designed and priced...
Data Management
February 11, 2009
It is not the technology that makes a farmer a precision farmer, but the process of data collection, conversion of data to knowledge, and the application of the knowledge to site-specific management whithin field boundaries. Virtual Farmer A is...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
Wider adoption of remote imagery in agriculture has always been dogged by some critical shortcomings. First, it can prove complicated to interpret and turn into activity in the field. Second, the turnaround time from when an image is taken...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
As we hear talk of a new millennium and the changes the world must confront, agriculture is looking at one of the broadest revolutions the industry has ever experienced. Every segment of the agricultural industry will be touched by...
Data Management
February 10, 2009
Starting at wheat harvest in southern Texas in June and continuing at least until the last double-crop soybean is pulled from the pod in November, thousands of growers will be experiencing their first ride with a yield monitor at...
Data Management
February 5, 2009
RapidEye's prime contractor, MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) has been conducting tests to ensure proper measurement, analysis and verification of the system's performance and product quality.
"This is where MDA hands us the keys to the system," said Wolfgang...
Data Management
January 22, 2009
Ideal for use in a broad range of applications, including agricultural research, crop management, and ecology studies, HOBOnode sensors can transmit high-accuracy air temperature and soil moisture data to a PC several miles away without cables.
Accompanying software displays real-time...
